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by: Owen Chadwick
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 942.615
EAN: 9780521422512
ISBN: 0521422515
Label: Cambridge University Press
Manufacturer: Cambridge University Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 192
Publication Date: June 28, 1991
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Sales Rank: 1748538
Studio: Cambridge University Press
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Nancy Mitford once observed that some of the most bitter personal clashes of all time have been 'between the Manor and the Vicarage'. Owen Chadwick's Victorian Miniature paints a detailed cameo of nineteenth-century English rural life, in the extraordinary battle of wills between squire and parson in a Norfolk village. Both the evangelical clergyman and the squire, proudly conscious of his Huguenot ancestry, were passionate diarists, and their two journals open up a fascinating double perspective on the events which exposed their clash of personalities. The result is a narrative that is at once deeply informative about Victorian class distinctions, rural customs and festivities, and richly entertaining in a manner worthy of Trollope.
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Rating: - Good Read for those interested in Victorian England
This book was required reading for my History 302 class this term, and yet it still managed to be an interesting read, something that is shocking for college material.
It tells the story of a parson and squire in 19th century England who alone would be totally uniteresting in the grand scheme of history, but together they engaged in a battle that was well documented in their diaries, and which gives a good example of the way life was in Victorian England.
All in all, this was ... Read More
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